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Headword: *ka/pparis
Adler number: kappa,327
Translated headword: caper
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A kind of plant.[1]
Its fruit seems to be useful to doctors.
Zeno of Kition "used to swear 'by caper', just as Socrates [did] 'by dog'."[2]
Greek Original:
*ka/pparis: ei)=dos bota/nhs. h(=s o( karpo\s i)atroi=s dokei= ei)=nai o)nh/simos. o( de\ *zh/nwn o( *kitieu\s w)/mnue ka/pparin, kaqa/per *swkra/ths to\n ku/na.
Notes:
See also kappa 328.
[1] Capparis spinosa; see LSJ entry at web address 1.
[2] Diogenes Laertius 7.32; cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 9.370C = 9.10 Kaibel (and 9.370B [9.9] for oaths "by cabbage").
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; botany; definition; food; medicine; philosophy; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 July 2001@04:25:13.
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Catharine Roth (added note & link) on 9 July 2001@16:56:25.
David Whitehead on 11 July 2004@06:46:42.
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